SolusOS was a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on the latest stable release of Debian GNU/Linux. It features the GNOME 2 desktop, a good selection of default applications for everyday tasks, updated software applications from Debian "backports" and the project's own repositories, a complete set of multimedia plugins, a custom GNOME menu, and an intuitive graphical installer.

Steven Shiau has announced a new stable release of Clonezilla Live, a Debian-based live CD designed primarily for partition and disk imaging/cloning tasks: "This release of Clonezilla live (2.2.2-32) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded; this release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/Mar/31). Linux kernel was updated to 3.13.7-1. Partclone was updated to 0.2.70; an issue about restoring image file to raw format has been fixed; thanks to quaid for reporting this issue. Syslinux was updated to 6.03-pre9. Package drbl was updated to 2.8.6-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.9.49-drbl1. Two options were added to makeboot.sh: -L and -U; patch provided by Ceasar Sun. A boot parameter 'ocs_prompt_mode' was added so some of the prompt could be shown in TUI or CMD mode." See the entire release announcement for a full changelog. Download (SHA256) links: clonezilla-live-2.2.2-32-amd64.iso (141MB), clonezilla-live-2.2.2-32-i686-pae.iso (136MB), clonezilla-live-2.2.2-32-i486.iso (136MB).

Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. With Clonezilla, one can clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.6.0-37. Clonezilla Live provides tools for backing up, restoring and copying disk images and disk partitions either locally or across the network. The project's latest version includes several updates and fixes. "The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2019-01-08). Linux kernel has been updated to 4.19.13; Partclone to 0.3.12; ldmtool and haveged packages have been added; cURL has been added; NetworkManager has been added so that users can use 'nmtui' to configure network if necessary, especially for WiFi; making unknown fs as 'dd' and the image name for partition like sda3.dd-img.aa is now legacy - it has been replaced by sda3.dd-ptcl-img.lzma.aa; rewrite the same mechanism in ocs-onthefly; in addition to massive-deployment mode, the interactive-client mode was added so that lite server can provide the ability to enter interactive mode of Clonezilla Live in client; let live-build 20180618 handle uEFI boot, so ocs-put-signed-grub2-efi-bldr and ocs-gen-grub2-efi-bldr are deprecated." Further details can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5): clonezilla-live-2.6.0-37-amd64.iso (261MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.6.0-37-i686.iso (251MB), clonezilla-live-2.6.0-37-i686-pae.iso (251MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.5.5-38, the latest stable release of the project's specialist utility live CD, based on Debian's "unstable" branch, designed for disk cloning and backups: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.5.5-38) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2018-03-30; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.15.11; Partclone has been updated to 0.3.11 with some libraries also updated; new image format is used in this release, it is different from the one saved by Partclone 0.2.x; new massive deployment mechanism BitTorrent was added; Clonezilla has to convert the original image to the special format when BitTorrent mode is used and this will require more disk space in the image repository; switch keymap configuration method from console-data to keyboard-configuration." See the full release announcement for a complete list of changes and other technical notes. Download (SHA512): clonezilla-live-2.5.5-38-amd64.iso (235MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.5.5-38-i686.iso (230MB), clonezilla-live-2.5.5-38-i686-pae.iso (230MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.5.2-17, an updated build of the Debian-based live CD with specialist utilities for disk cloning and backups: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.5.2-17) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2017-06-26; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.11.6; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.91; languages file de_DE, es_ES, fr_FR, hu_HU, it_IT, ja_JP, sk_SK, and tr_TR have been updated; add SMB version selection when mounting CIFS; add brltty and espeakup packages; add sshpass and keychain packages; a lite server has been added to Clonezilla Live, it can be used as Clonezilla server, with limited features, but should work in most scenarios; re-arrange the main menu of Clonezilla live as 'device-image', 'device-device', 'remote-source', 'remote-dest', 'lite-server', 'lite-client'; boot parameter 'ocs_litesrv_mode' has been added for lite server pre-setting - use-existing-dhcpd, start-new-dhcpd, auto-detect, no-dhcpd." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (SHA512): clonezilla-live-2.5.2-17-amd64.iso (204MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.5.2-17-i686.iso (203MB), clonezilla-live-2.5.2-17-i686-pae.iso (204MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.5.0-5, a new stable version of the project's Debian-based live CD containing specialist tools designed for disk cloning and backup tasks: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.5.0-5) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-11-22; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.8.7; p7zip-full, sysstat and iftop packages have been added; the ca_ES language file has been updated; update gen-rec-iso by adding option -k1 in ocs-sr. Bug fixes: choose 'Enter_shell' should not give any error; timezone issue; remove partprobe command after ocs-scan-disk, sometimes it delays the GPT partition to be shown in /proc/partitions." Here is the brief release announcement as published on the project's mailing list. Download (SHA512) one of the live CD images from SourceForge: clonezilla-live-2.5.0-5-amd64.iso (192MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.5.0-5-i686.iso (193MB), clonezilla-live-2.5.0-5-i686-pae.iso (193MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.9-17, the latest stable version of the project's specialist Debian-based distribution designed for disk cloning and backups: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.9-17) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-10-21; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.7.8; removed 'nodmraid' from boot parameters in drbl-ocs.conf, fakeraid and firmware raid are supported now; updated language files hu_HU, ja_JP.UTF-8, de_DE, fr_FR, it_IT and es_ES; the drbl Clonezilla Live version information will be in /etc/ocs/ocs-live.conf and when an image is saved, the information will be saved in Info-packages.txt; applied patches from Aaron Burling, so now when mounting image repository, it is able to browse the directories recursively; force dhclient timeout at 60 seconds...." Continue to the release announcement to read the long list of enhancements and bug fixes. Download (SHA512): clonezilla-live-2.4.9-17-amd64.iso (188MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.4.9-17-i686.iso (188MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.9-17-i686-pae.iso (188MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of a new version of the Clonezilla Live disk cloning software. The new release, Clonezilla Live 2.4.6-25, is based on Debian's Unstable (Sid) branch and features version 4.5.4 of the Linux kernel. "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.6-25) includes minor enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-05-29; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.5.4; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.88; some segfault issues have been fixed; added support for boot parameter 'ocs_preload*', it can be used to fetch tarall/zip/sh files from http(s), ftp, tftp, and local URL, then extracted to /opt/; adde package dos2unix; added watch ocs-scan-disk for local block device in prep-ocsroot; make ocs-install-grub work on openSUSE 'Leap'." A full list of changes and bug fixes can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA512): clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-amd64.iso (183MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-i686.iso (185MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.6-25-i686-pae.iso (185MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.5-20, a new stable version of the specialist Debian-based live CD with utilities for hard disk cloning and backup tasks: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.5-20) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2016-02-03; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.3.3; since Linux kernel version 4, the default Unionfs file system has been changed to overlay, therefore if you edit boot parameter manually, you have to use 'union=overlay'; due to the Linux kernel change in the Debian repository, the i586 kernel is no longer available, so the Debian-based Clonezilla Live is now only released with 3 architectures - i686, i686-pae and amd64; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.87 and a FAT16 issue has been fixed; a new file system, Nilfs2, is supported in this release...." Continue to the release announcement to read the rest of the changelog. Download (MD5) links: clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-amd64.iso (180MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-i686-pae.iso (183MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.5-20-i686.iso (183MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-61, the latest stable build of the project's Debian-based live CD for cloning and restoring images of hard disks and hard disk partitions: "This release of Clonezilla Live (2.4.2-61) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2015-10-12; the Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.2.3; starting from Linux kernel 4.x, the default Unionfs file system has been changed to overlay, therefore if you edit boot parameter manually, you have to use 'union=overlay' and not 'union=aufs'; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.83 and the XFS issue fixed; the util-linux package has been updated to 2.27; other NIC names, like enp*, will be searched in ocs-live-netcfg; the zerofree package has been added; proportional GPT partition layout can be created with the '-k1' option...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (MD5) links: clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-amd64.iso (178MB, pkglist), clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-i686-pae.iso (179MB), clonezilla-live-2.4.2-61-i586.iso (178MB).

Steven Shiau has announced the availability of a new version of Clonezilla Live. The Clonezilla distribution is a Debian-based live disc for manipulating, copying and restoring images of hard disks and disk partitions. The new release, Clonezilla Live 2.4.2-10, offers bug fixes for restoring partitions on machines with UEFI support and cloning swap partitions on disks with GPT layouts. There are also a number of new features and package upgrades: "The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian's 'Sid' repository as of 2015-06-08; Linux kernel has been updated to 4.0.2; the default Unionfs file system has been changed to overlay, therefore if you edit boot parameter manually, you have to use 'union=overlay', no more using 'union=aufs'; switched to use systemd instead of SysVInit, following the way in upstream; switched to use live-config v4, all boot parameters should remain the same; Partclone has been updated to 0.2.78...." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): clonezilla-live-2.4.2-10-amd64.iso (173MB, pkglist).